civil war
civil war 英 [ˈsivl wɔ:] 美 [ˈsɪvəl wɔr]
phrase. 内战
名词复数:civil wars
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- phrase. 内战
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1. The clergymen of the Christian Church were often rabbled in the civil war.
内战期间基督教教士常常受到袭击。
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2. On the eve of the civil war, a slave or a slave owner would hardly have believed these gains possible in less than a century and a half, if ever.
在美国国内战争前夕,一个奴隶或者一个奴隶主简直不可能相信在不到一个半世纪的时间里能够获得这样的成绩。
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3. This week in our series, we tell about some of the other early battles of the civil war.
本周,我们继续向你讲述美国内战初期的其他一些重大战役。
- civil war (n.) "battles among fellow citizens or within a community," from civil in a sense of "occurring among fellow citizens" attested from late 14c. in batayle ciuile "civil battle," etc. The exact phrase civil war is attested from late 15c. (the Latin phrase was bella civicus). An Old English word for it was ingewinn. Ancient Greek had polemos epidemios.
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